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Globalization has had many effects on the world of business. One of these effects is an increase in employees that are relocated on assignments abroad. An important issue of expatriate management is the repatriation of expatriates. This is a major but often neglected issue. This study investigates how expatriates experience that their knowledge gained from international assignments is transferred and exploited by the MNC. The results from 93 expatriates from eleven Large Cap companies suggest that knowledge is not exploited trough formal mechanisms. Instead informal mechanisms of knowledge…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Globalization has had many effects on the world of
business. One of these effects is an increase in
employees that are relocated on assignments abroad.
An important issue of expatriate management is the
repatriation of expatriates. This is a major but
often neglected issue. This study investigates how
expatriates experience that their knowledge gained
from international assignments is transferred and
exploited by the MNC. The results from 93
expatriates from eleven Large Cap companies suggest
that knowledge is not exploited trough formal
mechanisms. Instead informal mechanisms of knowledge
transfer such as networks and own initiatives seem to
be a more common way of transferring and exploiting
knowledge in the investigated MNCs. The findings
indicate that the knowledge that the expatriates that
failed their mission abroad gained is not exploited
to the same extent as the expatriates that
successfully completed their assignments.
This analysis should be especially interesting for HR
managers and expatriates that wish to gain a deeper
understanding of knowledge transfer and learning
within MNCs.
Autorenporträt
Ulrika Kilnes: Studied International Business and Economics at
Uppsala University, Sweden.
Frida Hermansson: Studied International Business and Political
Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.